Gammons On Sheffield, Tazawa, Kearns

So you're telling me that Bowden wasn't fired right after pulling back Kearns? Really?

Yeah, the guy is a fantastic defensive outfielder with a little pop, but that seems like a pretty obvious move to me.

The guy was hitting horribly last season, and was owed $9M for 2009, not to mention the remainder of his 2008 salary.

Kearns isn't a bad player, but he was clearly overpaid and isn't the type of player that a rebuilding team needs to move along that effort.

I would argue that holding onto guys like Kearns, Dmitri Young, Ronnie Belliard, Vinny Castilla, and Nick Johnson, rather than get rid of them when they had the opportunity, was one of Bowden's biggest issues as GM in Washington.

Wow, you're right, Soriano was another big time example.

It probably skipped my memory because I know they still landed Jordan Zimmerman and Josh Smoker with the compensation picks they landed for him, which helps to soften that blow.

Is Sheffield a Free Agent after this season? If so he will actually make an effort.

In the battle of idiotic GMs, Bavasi matched him tit for tat by refusing to part with Washburn.

Sheffield can't lift his arm above his head. Might as well play John McCain.

" Yu Darvish is next."

Darvish said something to the order of he wanted to win 200 games in Japan I believe.

If he was posted however, the bidding would go higher than the 51M that Dice-K went for and imagine Boston's bid would hit the roof with him being so young.